I want to feed an external mic pre+eq (aml ez1073) in my Yamaha 01 v96i and I want to do it in a proper way, not to go wrong with some mistakes about balanced/unbalanced insert jacks or something after I made a nice set of equipment :) )) I will record via usb connection from yamaha 01v96i to my Apple Macbook pro equiped with Cubase8pro and Protools12. I also have a nice external compressor ( aphex651 expressor) that I plan to use after while mixing. Actually I will have to figure it out after I record everything how I will send back everything from my Cubase/Protools to Yamaha01v96i and external mic pre/eq(ez1073), external compressor to mix recorded tracks and get the "mojo" out of these analog beauties and than again bring that signal back to Cubase.. so.. any help would be nice of you people.. you will save one musician and no tehnician of a headache.. :)

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I'm using a Yamaha 01v96 mixer, and have begun to wonder if it would be beneficial to use other mic preamps than the 16 internal ones.
Anyone have opinions on the quality of the Yamaha preamps, and perhaps suggestions for 8 or 16 channel preamps that might be better?

I've had in my studio for the past 13 years the Yamaha DM2000.  The preamps are excellent. Not sure though whether they're the same preamps as in the 01v96, just fewer of them, or whether they are of different quality.
 
Jerry
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